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Raven Grimassi

Raven Grimassi Award-winning author Raven Grimassi is the
author of seven books on Wicca and Witchcraft, including
Wiccan Mysteries (awarded Best Book of the Year & Best
Spirituality Book 1998 by the Coalition of Visionary
Retailers), Wiccan Magick, Italian Witchcraft (previously
titled Ways of the Strega), Hereditary Witchcraft,
Encyclopedia of Wicca & Witchcraft (awarded Best Non-Fiction
Book 2001 by the Coalition of Visionary Retailers), Beltane,
and the forthcoming title The Witches' Craft (October 2002).

Raven Grimassi has been a teacher and practitioner of the
Craft for nearly 30 years. He is trained in the Family
tradition of Italian Witchcraft (also known as Stregheria),
and is also an initiate of several Wiccan Traditions,
including Brittic Wicca and the Pictish-Gaelic Tradition. He
is currently the Directing Elder of the Arician Ways. Raven
considers it his life's work to ensure the survival of
ancient witch lore and legend along with ancestral teachings
of the Old Religion.

Grimassi has worked as both a writer and editor for
several magazines over the past decade, including The
Shadow's Edge (a publication focusing on Italian Witchcraft)
and Raven's Call (a journal of modern Wicca, Witchcraft and
Magick).

Titles by Raven Grimassi:

Beltane

The Well Worn Path

Italian Witchcraft: The Old Religion of Southern
Europe

The Wiccan Mysteries: Ancient Origins & Teachings

Encyclopedia of Wicca & Witchcraft

The Witch's Familiar: Spiritual Partnerships for
Successful Magic

The Witches' Craft: The Roots of Witchcraft &
Magical Transformation

Hereditary Witchcraft: Secrets of the Old Religion

Wiccan Magick: Inner Teachings of the Craft

Witchcraft: A Mystery Tradition

Spirit of the Witch: Religion & Spirituality in
Contemporary Witchcraft

The Well Worn Path
Divination Kit

The Well-Worn Path is not a Tarot deck. It is a unique
divination system designed specifically for the needs of
modern Pagans, Witches, and Wiccans who seek something more
rooted in Nature based spirituality. The idea for this deck
arose from a recognized need for a system that speaks to the
Pagan culture of our European ancestors.

The title "Well-Worn Path" was chosen to reflect the idea of
the long ancient spiritual path to modern times. The image
is one of a path trodden with the footsteps of those who
have walked in these ways since perhaps the beginning of
time. Here our ancestors left to us a trail to the ways we
now seek to follow as we extend the path to our own new
vistas.

Unlike our deck, the Tarot originated from ancient Hebrew
mysticism, ceremonial magical systems of the Renaissance
period, and other influences. As a community we have been
presented with Tarot decks modified to reflect our imagery
in order to appeal to us as Pagans, Witches, and Wiccans.
But what has been missing up until now is a unique
divination deck and system that is based upon authentic
Pagan roots, as opposed to the borrowed symbolism and
structure of other systems.

The Well-Worn Path deck is designed to present and reveal
the symbolism, meaning, and teachings that are the
far-reaching roots of modern Paganism and the Craft.

The images in this deck depict the spiritual and religious
concepts that were the foundations of European Paganism as
once known to our ancestors.

In this deck we have preserved and presented the important,
vital, and viable traditions and beliefs that we all
continue to honor into modern days. Here we have captured
the knowledge and wisdom of ancient times for contemporary
application. It is our honor to be able to share and pass
this on to you here in the Well-Worn Path deck.

The design of each card has been carefully thought out and
includes important and valuable imagery. The descriptions
provide the reader with the tools and keys to access the
hidden Mysteries. The foundational teachings revealed in the
cards are the cobblestones that have been placed to lead you
down the Well-Worn Path. Now you will be able to use these
relatable images for divination, ritual, personal alignment,
and teaching. It is our hope one day you will extend the
path for those who walk behind you.